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Sunday, March 22, 2015

Everyone is a Criminal

One day your life will flash
before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.
- Unknown

The Goal: Turn
everyone into a criminal…

If you laid all our our laws end to end, there would
be no end…no other nation in history has created as many laws as the USA.Nor has any other nation accumulated so much
debt in such a short time span.

I’ve written about this many times over the past
decade.Our government is out of control
and no one seems willing or able to reign it in.When I was born we were a solvent nation and
government pretty much minded its own business.Now, our leaders have bankrupted the national treasury and interfere
with every damned nook and cranny of our lives…it is despicable.

Justice William Douglas once lamented “The
Constitution is not neutral.It was designed
to take the government off the backs of the people!”

Despite efforts of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison who
wanted to keep government severely limited and leave folks blessedly alone for
‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,’ we are no directed by Washington
on every element of living.Only special
interests, willing to pay the piper its price, seem to hold any sway while the
will of the people is damned.

The enumeration of powers granted to the government gives
them the authority to run the government, NOT our personal lives.

It’s apparent to many that we are no longer a free
society. We now have taxes on everything but, like the quality of our
leadership, our infrastructure is crumbling.

In 1970 we had 100 million laws on the books.Today, no one knows or can keep track of the
amount of laws that are in place at all levels of government.Most of us know we already have too much
government interference in our lives and its cost to citizens is beyond vile.Instead of laws issued by legislators, we’re
now run by unelected federal agencies and bureaucrats who seem bent on
destroying our nation.

The more people who are unwittingly trapped by our
all-encompassing, all choking legal system become just another revenue
source for the system and more fodder for the growth of more regulations from
UNELECTED bureaucrats who have little oversight by legislators.

The shocking growth of entangling laws and regulation is
tripping up honest Americans. Several thousand federal criminal statues exist
nowadays. For historical comparison, back in 1790 only six existed: treason,
counterfeiting, piracy, murder, maiming and robbery in federal jurisdictions.

Today scholars from universities, to the Justice Department, to the American
Bar Association don't even know how many laws exist! It's believed to be far
greater than 4,500. It's too numerous to count and these statutes are peppered
throughout 27,000 pages of the federal code.

Adding to this problem, many new federal laws have lower
standards for conviction than in the past: Prosecutors do not always need to
show criminal intent (mens rea.) And, federal regulations (also
numbering in the thousands) often carry the force of federal criminal law as
penalty.

Most people believe that knowing their rights and respecting
the rights of others is pretty much good enough to stay clear of legal trouble.
The problem today is the growing number of federal criminal laws and
regulations. They ensnare many law-abiding citizens who have no criminal
intent, yet threaten them with arrest, prosecution, and prison time.

Retired race-car champion Bobby Unser told a congressional
hearing how he got lost in a blizzard on his snowmobile and got a $75 fine,
plus a criminal record! The crime? He drove onto protected federal land, an
automatic violation of the Wilderness Act. An honest mistake that left him with
a misdemeanor conviction.

"There is no one in the United States over the
age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime," said
retired Louisiana State University law professor John Baker in a Wall Street Journal report. "That is not an exaggeration."

"Most
people think criminal law is for bad people," says Timothy
Lynch of the Cato Institute. "They're one misstep away from
the nightmare of a federal indictment."

Many pundits, like the Blaze's Buck Sexton, feel this gives
federal agencies too much power. To justify their budgets, they need something
to show, which encourages abuse... hammers
in search of nails.

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this knowledge for granted? Every dystopian novel features a world of
censorship. That world is impossible today.

Skip the student loans.
A key problem with government loans is that they are not creative. Students
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Yours for a life fulfilled

[or - is the future
useless]?

Bruce ‘the Poor Man’

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